MAN CODES

MAN CODES: QUOTES BY PEOPLE WHO PROMOTE POWER

“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” - Mahatma Gandhi “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” - Alice Walker

Compiled by Bilal S. Akram

change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.” - Ossie Davis

“You gain power by pretending to be weak.” - Chuck Palahniuk

“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.” - Veronica Roth “There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests get together to work toward the same goals.” -

Idowu Koyenikan

“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is, "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.” - Fulton J. Sheen “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” – Plato “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.” - Margaret Thatcher “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” - Leo F. Buscaglia “Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect “We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.” - Eric Micha'el Leventhal “It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” - David Brin “If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” - Peace Pilgrim “His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence. 2 Peter 1:3”